Family

The rabbit crawled underneath the Tilt a Whirl. Sparky was about to follow after when suddenly he was scooped up by Hitch.

“Sparky! You had me worried sick!” Hitch said in a panicked voice. “You know better than to wander off alone. Now come on, let’s go back to the others.”

Hitch placed Sparky on his back and walked away. Sparky looked back over at the Tilt a Whirl, Trying to find the rabbit. Instead he thought he saw a pair of glowing eyes looking at him from the shadows.

Allura emerged from the shadows and snuck over to the Tilt a Whirl. Twitch crawled out from under it.

“Well? Were you able to find a shard of the original crystal?”

Twitch shook his head.

Allura pounded the ground angrily with her paw. “Curses! How am I supposed to open the portal back home if I can’t find a piece of the original crystal?”

A gleam of light then caught Allura’s attention. She looked over at Sunny’s smoothie stand and noticed something shiny on the roof. It was a shard of the original crystal.

Allura’s eyes went wide. “A shard! But how am I supposed to get to it? That stand is surrounded by ponies.”

Twitch then jumped up on Allura’s shoulder and whispered into her ear.

“Are you sure that will work?”

Twitch smiled and nodded his head.

“Alright. Let’s do this.” Allura and Twitch then put their plan into motion.

Twitch snuck over to the garbage cans that were behind the back of the amusement park. There were raccoon-acorns all over them, looking for food. Twitch whistled and got their attention. Twitch then proceeded to speak to the raccoon-acorns. The raccoon-acorns became excited, and followed Twitch as he led them into the amusement park.

Back at Sunny’s smoothie stand, Sunny was having an important conversation with Izzy.

“Izzy, your ride looks really, um, great. But it might be just a little too much for ponies visiting the park.”

Izzy was confused. “What do you mean?”

As Sunny was about to softly and kindly tell Izzy that her ride was basically a death trap, They were suddenly swarmed by dozens of raccoon-acorns. They tore up Sunny’s stand, gorging themselves on all of the ingredients for smoothies and drinking all of the smoothies Sunny had made.

Hitch rushed over as soon as he saw the commotion. “Sunny, what’s going on?!”

“I don’t know! The raccoon-acorns just started overrunning the stand for some reason!”

Izzy looked over at a raccoon-acorn who was drinking a smoothie. “Hey! You have to pay for that!”

With everypony distracted, Allura made her move. She snuck onto the top of the stand and grabbed the crystal shard. She then left as quickly as she had appeared.

Hitch drove away the raccoon-acorns, but made one of them stay behind. He then asked why they were attacking the stand. The raccoon-acorn chittered back.

“What did he say?” Sunny asked.

“He said that there was tons of food to be found at your smoothie stand by a strange looking rabbit.”

Sunny, Hitch, and Izzy were all puzzled.

Meanwhile, Allura made her way back to the shadows of the amusement park where Twitch was waiting for her. She held up the crystal shard in front of him.

“Mission accomplished, Twitch! Now that we have a shard of the original crystal, we can move on to phase two of the plan!”